Citation

Walters GD, Elliott WN. Leg. Crim. Psychol. 1999; 4(1): 15-21.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, British Psychological Society, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1348/135532599167743

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Purpose. This study was designed to assess the predictive validity of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) in female offenders.Methods. In the first of two studies, outcome data on 118 female inmates released from a state correctional facility were correlated with the PICTS thinking style scales. In a second study, disciplinary adjustment data on 100 female federal inmates were correlated with the PICTS thinking style scales.Results. In the first study the PICTS Sentimentality (Sn) scale correlated moderately with subsequent release outcome independent of subject ethnic status and confining offence. In the second study the PICTS Cutoff, Entitlement, Power Orientation, Cognitive Indolence and Discontinuity scales correlated moderately with subsequent disciplinary outcome independent of subject age and ethnic status.Conclusion. These findings lend preliminary support to the practical utility of the PICTS thinking style scales as predictors of release and disciplinary outcome in female offenders, but suggest that release outcome and disciplinary adjustment are not predicted by the same PICTS thinking style scales.

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